Improvement in binding attachment for harvesters



DUDLEY w. TRAVIS,

or ENFIELD, AND CHARLES M. CLINTON, or ITHACA,

NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN BINDING ATTACHMENT FOR HARVESTERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 107,126,

We, DUDLEY W. TRAVIS, of Enfield, and CHARLES M. CLINTON, of Ithaca,Tompkins county, New York, have jointly invented an Improved ReaperBinding Attachment, of which the following' is a specification:

Our object is to make a platform, on which two menshall be seated, andreadily take the grain as it comes from between the guides of the reaperin bundles, and bind it. The mode of doing this, and the applianceswhich constitute our invention, will be apparent as we describe theseveral parts thereof.

Figure 1 is a view'looking down on our attachment. Fig. 2 is a sectionalView through the space between the grain-guides, and Fig. 3 is a viewfrom the back side of our platform or attachment.

In Fig. l, A A A is the platform, made in an)r suitable manner, havingthe edge A adjustable tolthe reaper on the side where the grain isusually pushed off upon the ground by the machine-rake of the reaper.Instead of falling on the ground, however, our attachment receives it,being slid along with the top or head of the bundle passing from Atoward B, up the incline G, between the guides H H.

The rear end of G- terminates in a pit or space, E, between the inclineGand the second incline F, and when the bundle lies resting partially onG and partially on F, one of the operators, seated on either ofthe seatsC, passes his hands under the bundle and into the space E, and raisesthe bundle to the table D next to him, and puts a band of straw or othermaterial about it, while the other operator is making his band, and istaking his bundle up to his table D. Thus on alternately.

dated September 6, 1870.

In Fig. 2 the inclines G and F are seen in profile, and the further factthat a part of the platform, B, is hinged to the other part, A A.

This hinging is for convenience in transportation, passage of gateways,and other places.

In Fig. 3, the elevation of the tables'J D, seats C, inclines, guides,and other parts are seen, and the further fact that the rear end of theplatform has the spring-swivel wheel J under it, the spring being acoiled one, on the shaft of the caster, and concealed in the swivelstudL. This spring serves to aid the passage of obstacles and uneven ground.

The advantages and further use ot' our attachment are apparent to thoseskilled in the art to which it appertains.

Claims.

l. The combination of the inclines G and the guides H H with its inclineF and its guides I 1, for the space between them, into which the handsand arms of the operator are thrust in seizing the bundle to be bound,as set forth.

2. The arrangement ofthe incline G and its guides, seat C, tablesD, andspring-swivel J, operating together, substantially as and for thepurposes described.

3. The combined arrangement of the incline G and guides, incline F andguides, seats C, tables D, a swivel, J, operating substantially as andfor-the purposes described.

D. W. TRAVIS. CHAS. M. CLINTON.

Witnesses:

SAMUEL J. PARKER, S. W. SMITH;

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